Youths in the Central African Republic plundered a mosque in the capital and barricaded streets with burning tyres on Thursday in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that left about a dozen people dead, witnesses said. Few...

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A French soldier and an African Union peacekeeper from Burundi participate in a joint patrol, in the Galabadja district of Bangui, Central African Republic, on Saturday, January 4. While insecurity continued to reign in many areas of the city, certain neighborhoods were tentatively reopening and some residents returning, at least during daylight hours. The African nation has...

Fighting swept through the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving dozens of casualties and posing the biggest threat yet to the country's new government. The U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. Witnesses and aid workers say at least 98 people are dead in Bangui after a day of clashes...

Fighting swept through the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving nearly one hundred people dead and posing the biggest threat yet to the country's new government. The U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. Witnesses and aid workers say at least 98 people are dead in Bangui after a day of...

Fighting swept through the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving nearly one hundred people dead and posing the biggest threat yet to the country's new government. The U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. Witnesses and aid workers say at least 98 people are dead in Bangui after a day of...

Fighting swept through the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving nearly one hundred people dead and posing the biggest threat yet to the country's new government. The U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. Witnesses and aid workers say at least 98 people are dead in Bangui after a day of...

Clashes between Muslim and Christian residents have left at least 75 people dead in a single town, a local priest said Monday, pleading for help to stop the massacres taking place in the countryside as Central African Republic teeters on the brink of anarchy. French forces in the capital, meanwhile, struggled to stop mobs of looters from stealing what remained of Muslim homes...

Wielding rifles and machetes, armed Christian fighters who support the Central African Republic's exiled president assaulted the capital at dawn on Thursday, leaving nearly 100 people dead. Shrouded bodies were lined up in a mosque as dozens of wounded lay on blood-stained hospital floors. The ambush on Muslim neighborhoods of Bangui came as the United Nations voted to send a...

Witnesses said,Youths in the Central African Republic plundered a mosque in the capital and barricaded streets with burning tyres on Thursday in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that left about a dozen people dead. Few people ventured onto the streets of Bangui because of the protests, which have heightened fears of further inter-religious violence and reprisals against the Muslims who remain in the city. A Reuters witness saw youths from the mainly Christian anti-Balaka sack a mosque in the Lakouanga neighbourhood of the capital.
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Witnesses said,Youths in the Central African Republic plundered a mosque in the capital and barricaded streets with burning tyres on Thursday in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that left about a dozen people dead. Few people ventured onto the streets of Bangui because of the protests, which have heightened fears of further inter-religious violence and reprisals against the Muslims who remain in the city. A Reuters witness saw youths from the mainly Christian anti-Balaka sack a mosque in the Lakouanga neighbourhood of the capital.
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Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

published:28 May 2014

Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

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Residents and a Reuters witness said,several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. A Reuters witness said he saw around 10 bodies and several more wounded after the attack on the Our Lady of Fatima church on the outskirts of the mostly Muslim PK5 neighborhood of Bangui.
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Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

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Residents and a Reuters witness said,several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. A Reuters witness said he saw around 10 bodies and several more wounded after the attack on the Our Lady of Fatima church on the outskirts of the mostly Muslim PK5 neighborhood of Bangui.
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Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

published:28 May 2014

Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

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Residents and a Reuters witness said,several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. A Reuters witness said he saw around 10 bodies and several more wounded after the attack on the Our Lady of Fatima church on the outskirts of the mostly Muslim PK5 neighborhood of Bangui.
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Several Killed In Attack On Church In Capital Of Central African Republic

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Residents and a Reuters witness said,several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. A Reuters witness said he saw around 10 bodies and several more wounded after the attack on the Our Lady of Fatima church on the outskirts of the mostly Muslim PK5 neighborhood of Bangui.
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US envoy: Almost every CAR mosque destroyed in war

published:18 Mar 2015

US envoy: Almost every CAR mosque destroyed in war

US envoy: Almost every CAR mosque destroyed in war

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Almost all of the 436 mosques in the Central African Republic have been destroyed by months of vicious fighting between Christians and Muslims, the US ambassador to the United Nations said.
Samantha Power spoke to reporters on Tuesday after a Security Council visit last week to the country, calling the devastation \"kind of crazy, chilling\".
She expressed concern about an upcoming possible security vacuum as European Union and French forces pull out and a UN peacekeeping force is still not at full strength.
At least 5,000 people have been killed since Central African Republic exploded into unprecedented violence in December 2013.
Nearly one million of the country\'s 4.5 million residents have been displaced. Many of those who have fled are Muslim.
Power said 417 of the country\'s mosques have been destroyed. She visited the one remaining Muslim neighbourhood in the capital, Bangui, and described the residents as \"a terrified population\".
Some Muslim women, afraid of leaving the community while wearing their veils, are choosing to give birth in their homes instead of hospitals, the ambassador said.
UN peacekeepers, French forces and a European Union military operation have tried to calm the violence.
But Power said the last of the EU force of about 750 troops left the Central African Republic over the weekend, shortly after the Security Council visit.
\"That\'s a big drop-off in capability,\" she said. Meanwhile, the French forces have announced a \"substantial drawdown\" by the end of this year. France had sent 2,000 troops to its former colony.
The UN peacekeeping force remains a...

US envoy: Almost every CAR mosque destroyed in war

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Almost all of the 436 mosques in the Central African Republic have been destroyed by months of vicious fighting between Christians and Muslims, the US ambassador to the United Nations said.
Samantha Power spoke to reporters on Tuesday after a Security Council visit last week to the country, calling the devastation \"kind of crazy, chilling\".
She expressed concern about an upcoming possible security vacuum as European Union and French forces pull out and a UN peacekeeping force is still not at full strength.
At least 5,000 people have been killed since Central African Republic exploded into unprecedented violence in December 2013.
Nearly one million of the country\'s 4.5 million residents have been displaced. Many of those who have fled are Muslim.
Power said 417 of the country\'s mosques have been destroyed. She visited the one remaining Muslim neighbourhood in the capital, Bangui, and described the residents as \"a terrified population\".
Some Muslim women, afraid of leaving the community while wearing their veils, are choosing to give birth in their homes instead of hospitals, the ambassador said.
UN peacekeepers, French forces and a European Union military operation have tried to calm the violence.
But Power said the last of the EU force of about 750 troops left the Central African Republic over the weekend, shortly after the Security Council visit.
\"That\'s a big drop-off in capability,\" she said. Meanwhile, the French forces have announced a \"substantial drawdown\" by the end of this year. France had sent 2,000 troops to its former colony.
The UN peacekeeping force remains a...

Witnesses said,Youths in the Central African Republic plundered a mosque in the capital and barricaded streets with burning tyres on Thursday in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that left about a dozen people dead. Few people ventured onto the streets of Bangui because of the protes

Residents and a Reuters witness said,several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. A Reuters witness said he saw around 10 bodies and several more wounde

Residents and a Reuters witness said,several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. A Reuters witness said he saw around 10 bodies and several more wounde

Almost all of the 436 mosques in the Central African Republic have been destroyed by months of vicious fighting between Christians and Muslims, the US ambassador to the United Nations said.
Samantha Power spoke to reporters on Tuesday after a Security Council visit last week to the country, calling

The city was founded in 1889 in what was then the French colony Haut-Oubangui ('Upper Ubangi'), later renamed Oubangui-Chari and made part of French Equatorial Africa. Named for local rapids, the city grew around the French military post on the Ubangi river. Bangui served as an administration center in the colonial era and continues to be the administrative center of the CAR.